The discovery was made by Roman Azarenko (Roman Azarenko) of Russia using an Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1240 v3 @ 3.40GHz with 2GB RAM, running Linux. This computer took about 1 hour 7 minutes to complete the primality test using LLR. Roman is a member of the Russia Team.

The prime was verified on 2 November 2015, 22:02:26 UTC, by Jon Beard (Fuzzy Duck) of Vietnam using an Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4790K CPU @ 4.00GHz with 32GB RAM, running Microsoft Windows 10. This computer took about 7 hours 1 minute to complete the primality test using LLR. Jon is a member of the The Knights Who Say Ni! team.